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Oakland Athletics Hall of Famers Tony LaRussa (10), Rickey Henderson and Dennis Eckersley stand together during a ceremony to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the A’s team that won the world championship in 1989, before the start of a Major League Baseball game between the A’s and the Baltimore Orioles, Saturday, July 19, 2014 at O.co Coliseum in Oakland, Calif. (D. Ross Cameron/Bay Area News Group)

What’s better than reminding your older sibling of that time you beat them?

That’s what the A’s will be doing Sunday at the Oakland Coliseum ahead of their game against the Giants.

The Athletics will honor their 1989 championship club before the 1:07 first pitch of the second two-game series between the Bay Area rivals this season.

Hall of Famers Rickey Henderson and Dennis Eckersley will be on hand, according to a release from the club, as will series MVP Dave Stewart, who threw a complete-game shutout in Game 1 and returned to start and win the earthquake-delayed Game 3.

Former manager Tony La Russa and GM Sandy Alderson will attend, too, as part of the club that swept the Giants.

A’s president Dave Kaval said Sunday’s game against the Giants was chosen more to honor the gravity of the Loma Prieta Earthquake series rather than rubbing the Giants’ noses in the sweep, though he acknowledged it as a way to push the rivalry.

“I think the Bay Bridge series kind of transcends that,” Kaval said, calling the 1989 quake and series “an event that galvanized the entire Bay Area.”

The series victory came in the middle of a three-year run of AL pennants for the Athletics. The ’88 team never bounced back from Kirk Gibson’s famous home run and the 1990 group was swept by the Reds. The team that dominated the Giants were even overshadowed, rightly, by the seriousness of the quake that killed 63 people and injured thousands.

Kaval recalled that there was no parade in Oakland to honor the champions.

“The fact that the didn’t get those accolades when they won makes it even more impactful to relive it,” he said.

For their part, the Giants take no offense to the ceremony landing on a day the Bay’s teams will face off.

“We’re fine with it,” vice president Staci Slaughter said via email.

Slaughter noted that the Giants recently honored their ’89 team. The event was scheduled for Aug. 11, before a game against the Philadelphia Phillies.

Even with their success this decade — three championships since 2010 — the Giants still trail the A’s in World Series rings. The A’s have four since coming to the Bay Area in 1968.

The teams split the first two-game series at Oracle Park last week, and the winner of this season series will receive the Bay Bridge Series trophy, which was introduced last year and is made with steel from the original bridge itself.

Kaval said the trophy and the ceremony are just part of the continued effort to stoke the natural rivalry between The Town and The City.

“There’s always been this rivalry between San Francisco and Oakland, these twin cities of the Bay Area,” he said. “They’re only like 8 or 9 miles apart across the Bay.”

Before the ’89 series, that distance may as well have been across the country as far as the play on the diamond is concerned.

With expanded interleague play and the memory of the Loma Prieta series, it’s closer than ever.